Cynthia Hoven, MA

Cynthia is an Eurythmy teacher, performer, therapist, and adult educator for anthroposophy and Waldorf education.

Cynthia Hoven has over 35 years of experience working with Anthroposophy, Waldorf education, and Eurythmy. Since 1992, she has been a key professor at Rudolf Steiner College in Fair Oaks, California, where she has taught courses in all these subjects and founded and directed a full-time Eurythmy training program for 10 years.

She is the author of Eurythmy Movements and Meditations: A Journey to the Heart of Language. She is also the designer, visionary, and director of www.EurythmyOnline.com

Ms. Hoven earned her B.S. degrees in Science and Psychology, and her M.A. in Human Behavior. She has traveled and taught extensively throughout the world and is enthusiastic about working in international settings.

Cynthia is passionate about developing the field of “Eurythmy as a Personal Practice,” creating a curriculum that helps people perceive the creative forces in self and world and learn to work with them in an aesthetic, harmonizing, expressive art. Her capacity to perceive sensitively, speak warmly, and direct effectively allows her to work with a broad spectrum of students. She is adept at performing, healing, and teaching eurythmy to adults and children, and at using it to enhance collaborative group work. She also joined her husband at workshops to teach the interface of eurythmy and biodynamic agriculture.

Cynthia travels widely across four continents to teach eurythmy, lecture on anthroposophical topics, and coach and mentor students. She is well respected for her highly engaging teaching style.

She has also dedicated her interests to collaborative work on all fronts. A powerful emerging theme is the work with youth, as she recognizes the necessity for them to find opportunities to use their insights and build the new forms of cooperative work in civic society, while attending to deep spiritual, social, and ecological values.